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Title
Cahuenga Freeway, looking north from Pilgrimage Bridge
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection;
Date Created and/or Issued
1949
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description
Title supplied by cataloger.
View of the roads, rail lines, and cars traveling through the Cahuenga Pass, the most important section of the Hollywood Freeway, which is the "gateway" that opens fast traffic from the rich San Fernando Valley into Hollywood and the heart of metropolitan Los Angeles. The short city-built Cahuenga Pass Freeway was opened on June 15, 1940. Photograph dated March 18, 1949.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00092847
Los Angeles Photographers Collection;
GPC_b27_f2_i34
CARL0004998091
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/116231
Subject
Express highways--California, Southern
Mountain passes--California, Southern
Automobiles--California--Los Angeles
Traffic flow--California--Los Angeles
Railroad tracks--California--Los Angeles
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
United States Highway 101
Cahuenga Pass (Los Angeles, Calif.)

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